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On Deck with Kim Ng Karla Scherer Endowed Lecture Series for the University of Chicago

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  • ABOUT Kim Ng

    Kim Ng is the senior vice president for baseball operations with Major League Baseball. Previously, Ng was the vice president and assistant general manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers. She is one of only two female executives in Major League Baseball to have held such a position and was the first woman to interview for a general manager's position when she did so with the Dodgers in 2005. In her twelve seasons as an assistant general manager, she reached the postseason eight times and won three World Championships. Profile
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Baseball, the most American of all games, is today as much about quantitative analysis (as told in Moneyball) and international operations as it is about the suicide squeeze and the long ball. As the senior vice president of baseball operations for Major League Baseball, Kim Ng confronts these issues, and more, as she charts the future of the game. Ng started her career with the Chicago White Sox, and was an assistant general manager with the New York Yankees and the L.A. Dodgers. Oh, and did we mention that Ng is a role model for girls across the country? She has advanced further in the upper ranks of baseball management than any woman in history.

blog Read CHF Director of Programming Mary Kate Barley-Jenkins's blog on Kim Ng.

This program is presented as part of the annual Karla Scherer Endowed Lecture Series for the University of Chicago.

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